Badlands Media - The Daily Herold: 3/23/26 - Legal Pressure Builds, Narrative Shifts, and Signals Beneath the Surface

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

Jon Herold hosts The Daily Herold and examines a rapidly evolving landscape where legal pressure, narrative shifts, and political signaling are all unfolding at once. Jon breaks down key developments, focusing on how emerging legal actions and responses are shaping the broader conversation. He highlights how quickly narratives adjust in response to new information and why paying attention to timing and sequencing is critical to understanding what is really happening. The episode also explores how public messaging continues to diverge from underlying actions, with Jon walking through examples that suggest deeper strategic positioning beneath the surface. He emphasizes the importance of identifying signals within the noise, encouraging viewers to look beyond headlines and consider the broader context driving current events. Throughout the discussion, Jon reinforces a core theme of staying grounded, thinking critically, and recognizing patterns in an environment where information is constant but clarity must be earned.

That's a hell of it. Well, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Daily Herald here on Badlands Media. I'm your host, John Harold, and kind of happy Monday. I don't like saying happy Monday, but it is a good Monday. We may have peace on the horizon, but maybe not. There's conflicting reports. We're going to talk about that. Pretty excited about today's show.

I have a guest joining me. Somebody you guys know from the chats, who happens to be, I guess we'll call them our experts in the oil industry. It's polymathenon. and he's going to, I don't know, answer some burning questions. Talk about the oil industry a little bit and prices and what he's seeing. Talk a little drill, baby drill, and we'll just kind of see where the conversation goes. So how was everybody's weekend? See the chats filling up, all the regulars in there.

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gets out. We'll get that going here, hopefully today. Real quick, no update on the Doge website. Gold and silver have like basically tanked. Gold is down to $4,400. Silver is at just under $70. And then Bitcoin, we are at $70,650. No update on the presidential website. And then I have one clip to show you guys from this weekend. So if you watch the Saturday Power Hour, we talked about a lot of things as we usually do. And I don't like to say that, you know, a lot of people in the community, they look at Trump's true social posts or things he says. I'm like, oh, that's a comm.

Because I said that previously. That's a comm. That's a hat tip or whatever. And it's fun to do that. We've had these, you know, conversations in our private chats so many times. Like, hey, we were just talking about sharks last week. And this week, Trump said something about sharks. And so this is definitely a comma hat tip.

He's watching us. I don't personally like to think that. I always like I never assume or think that anything's a calm. But I thought this is a funny little video because on Saturday we talked about the discombobulator and how we hadn't had that yet since the Iran war started, no mention of it. And then Chris also mentioned the word mutualization. And we got both of those things from Trump the very next day. So coincidence, for sure, funny, love it.

I'll play this clip real quick. But hold on. He keeps messing up. he keeps messing up another thing too, which is when he makes the post about the Save America Act, he's been writing mutilation instead of mutilation, yeah. Really? Yeah, two or three times now. And he'll go back and forth between mutilization and mutilation.

Yeah, maybe. He hasn't mentioned the discombobulator one single time either so far. It's messed up. Yeah, I hope. Disappointing. Yeah. Maybe we'll never hear. about it here about it again i don't know maybe we feel a little close it's too close to the sun with the

dismobulubulatory maybe the next day but that's an ongoing process the meeting today again but we must fund i we must fund tsa now he's been writing utilization instead of mutilation yeah well hold on yeah so we got both of those the very next day thought it was funny we had to share Probably the biggest news from today is this true social post and a couple clips of Trump talking about the Iran war. He says, I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had over the last two days very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week. I've instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. Over the weekend, Trump gave a 48-hour deadline to Iran saying, like, we're going to bomb all your energy infrastructure, and then he puts out this true social post.

It was contradicted by Iran. Iran has denied. that they're in talks. Somebody's walking out in the front yard. They've denied the talks after he postponed the strikes. And then he was on the tarmac this morning, Trump. And he said a couple interesting things. So here's number one. Play this.

A top person. Don't forget. We've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three. But we're dealing with the man who has. I believe is the most respected and the leader. You know, it's a little tough. They've wiped out, we've wiped out everybody. Is that the Supreme Leader?

No, not the Supreme Leader. We don't, well, nobody's ever, nobody heard of the second Supreme Leader, the Sun. Nobody, we have not heard from the Sun. Everyone said, well, you see a statement made, but we haven't, we don't know if he's living. But the people that seem to be running it, and they seem that based on really fact,

because things they've said have taken place. Mr. President, I know you've got to be killed. Okay, I don't want him to be killed. Nobody wants to be that. Nobody wants that job, right? So this is very interesting. He's saying that there's some sort of peace agreement or ceasefire that's been negotiated. I mean, had a buddy of mine send me a message. He's in the financial world and he's like, this is totally fake. It's not going to going to there's no way the ceasefire holds and we've already had stories of israel sending bombs in so and we're going to talk about israel here in the second the next clip but what he says here is

we're not going to tell you who we're negotiating with and he makes it seem like it's not come any son but he says he doesn't want to disclose it because he doesn't want that person to be killed that is interesting because if trump has negotiated a ceasefire the united states has we're not going to be the ones to kill that person. It really leaves two possibilities. Either I ran and maybe it's a good twin-evil-twin situation and I ran totally plausible. Maybe Kmenyside is the evil twin and they're going to kill this guy because he's negotiating some sort of peace. That's possible.

The other possibility, which is probably more, I would say more interesting just in terms of the fallout, would it be Israel. and whether or not Israel is like in line with the Trump administration all the talk about whether or not Israel got us into this war and I mean that whole situation is we've certainly not seen the conclusion to those theatrics whatever but is that is that why he doesn't want to announce who it is even though we got some story from some news outlet claiming to know it is whether it's true or not I don't know but this question is followed up by this right here asked if Israel will abide by the agreement. If these talks go well and you reach a ceasefire agreement with Iran, do you believe Israel would abide by that agreement? I think Israel will be very happy with what we have. We just spoke to Israel a little while ago. I think they'll be very happy.

This will be peace for Israel, long-term peace, guaranteed peace. If this happens, and I can't guarantee it, but I think it's going to, my life is a deal. That's all I do is deals, my whole life. I think this is something that's going to happen. And why wouldn't it happen? So tomorrow, morning, sometime, their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants

that caused over $10 billion to build. It's a very good one. There was no dearth of money. And one shot, it's gone. It collapses. Why would they want that? So they called, I didn't call, they called, they want to make a deal. And we are very willing to make a deal.

It's got to be a good deal. And it's got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. no more nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore. They're agreeing to that. Any of that stuff, there's no deal. You said you want to get the Ugris uranium. How are you going to get the I'm it? It's very easy. If we have a deal with them, we're going down and we'll take it ourselves. Can I ask you, the Treasury lifted sanctions on Iranian oil that was out to sea? You criticized President Obama for giving Iran $1.7 billion.

I just want to have as much oil in the system as possible. And we don't even know if Iran gets that money. Anyway, so at the beginning there, he talks about, well, you know, we just spoke with Iran. It sounds like he didn't talk to, or sorry, Israel, it sounds like he didn't talk to Israel before he, you know, this agreement with Iran. You know, it's really making you start to wonder how entangled the United States and Israel are throughout this conflict. You know, I'm sure they're sharing intelligence. They're doing joint missions on some things and whatnot. But when it comes to the peace aspect and how this gets resolved, it seems like Trump, based on what he's saying.

again total total speculation here but it seems like Trump is leaving them out of it kind of like he left Ukraine out of those peace negotiations for the most part in NATO it's like between him and Russia we're the ones that are negotiating this peace deal you're just going to end up going along with it feels like it's the same vibe here okay and then one more clip just in terms of no ground troops or whatever this was on Fox News could be total fake no idea but we're being told that there are elements of the 82nd Airborne Division that have arrived in the Middle East. And after this clip, we'll be bringing in Polymath and on on. Good morning, Bill.

And over the weekend, President Trump had given Iran a 48-hour deadline. That was set to expire at 7.44 p.m. Eastern time early tomorrow morning here in the region. After that true social post that you just read, Bill, President Trump now extending that deadline five days, perhaps after the market's closed. after he said he had good and positive discussions with the Iranians. Now, the Iranians denied that any kind of discussions took place. But here in the UAE, it joined more than 20 nations that have signed on to help open the Strait of Hormuz and condemned Iran's action. They said they would be willing to contribute, but did not list any specifics.

But they want to get the Strait of Hormuz open. And over the weekend, U.S. forces did not get the weekend off, Bill. And now it's over 8,000 strikes hitting targets deeper now inside Iran, including destroying more of Iran's one-way attack drones, though Iran's still averaging over 60 drones and over two dozen ballistic missile launches each day throughout countries in the region, more than three weeks into this war. And just a short time ago, as American-Israeli air strikes continued, the air-tasking order starting lineup in layman's terms bill will be without the USS Gerald R. Ford. She just arrived in Crete earlier today in the eastern Mediterranean. After a fire on board in the launcher room, she will be replaced by the USS George H.W. Bush getting ready to set sail in the coming days from Norfolk. And the USS Tripoli amphibious Ready Group should be arriving here in the Middle East in the coming days with over 2,000 Marines on board and an equal number in the 11th Marine Expeditiary Unit aboard the USS Boxer should be here in about a month after leaving San Diego in the past week.

Now, there's also indications based on plane spotters that elements of the 82nd Airborne division, probably the Alert Brigade, have arrived here in the region based on flights, cargo flights from Fort Bragg and likely also Fort Campbell. That's also home to elements of the 18th Airborne Corps. Of course, Hunter 1st Airborne Division, Bill. Yeah, so we'll see what happens. And it's certainly going to be interesting. This week is going to be a fun one. And by fun, I mean, it's going to be a shit show. So we'll see. And then this morning before, before Trump made that true social post, there's a ton of volume in stock and oil futures. They were surging. And then about 15 minutes after the trades were put in, the announcement came out and everything surged. Things are up. So certainly it seems like people may have had some insider knowledge that that was about to take place. But with that, guys, I want to bring on polymathodon and talk a little bit about oil.

and the gas industry and what's going on over there. Welcome to the show, Polly Mathan. Is this your first appearance on Badlands? Yes, sir, it is. But aren't you going to, you're going to be doing shows with John Drake soon, I'm told. Yep, that's in the works. I should be coming up. A couple of weeks we're planning on maybe right after Gart.

Awesome. Very exciting. Do you mind giving people a little background about you and, And your role, you're a supplier for the oil industry. Is that correct? Yeah. The company I work for, we engineer, well, I engineer products for the oil and gas industry. It's all for extraction purposes.

So I'm on the supply end. We work with a lot of different companies, but that's what I do. but then as a matter of course, because it determines my livelihood, I follow pretty closely everything that goes on in those particular markets and listen to what our customers have to say about how they're feeling or what they're seeing on the ground

and how they're thinking they might react in the next quarter or what have you for what they're going to produce. sure let me ask you this question first going back to when trump took office did you notice any change like this is i want to talk about this before we can get to the iran aspect did you notice any change in your industry like when when trump got in there did we start drilling more did like demand go up like what did you see when when he was inaugurated yeah actually it's kind of funny is uh at the time probably the last two years or so of the Obama admin. I saw how the market tapered off really bad.

We had to lay off a bunch of people, and we were just barely hanging on, you know, our business. This is back in 2014, 2015? Yeah, this is, yeah, it's slow taper off back in that range. And then literally, the company, they were pretty good people, they were just paying people to go around and more or less just clean and maintain the factories because we literally were producing nothing. Wow. And then the morning after Trump was elected, phones were ringing off the hook and they were saying, go, go, go as much as you can do, give us as many parts as you can.

Wow. just like overnight we went from having nothing to do to having way more capacity than we could than we could ever want okay and then was there a change when when biden got in there and then when trump came back the second time uh there was it uh it slowed a bit at the uh near the tail end of his first admin and then uh it we basically ended up in the same scenario throughout a Biden stint pretending to be president. Now when Trump came back in Trump 2.0 or 3.0, whatever you want to call it, we did see us a slight uptick. I think it was optimism on our suppliers

behalf, but in all reality that only lasted for a couple of months and then we kind of tapered back off and we've been in just a hand to mouth kind of holding pattern where we're getting just enough work to keep lights on but it hasn't really ramped up yet interesting so what about the drill baby drill rhetoric that we've been getting does that not been true there's there's drilling but there's not actually extraction and fracking. There's a big, there's a difference between the two, and they kind of go hand in hand, you know.

Do you explain that more in detail? Yeah, well, what you have is you have basically two different types of oil economies and oil extractions. worldwide in other places in the Middle East you have a lot of you have light crude oils that are mostly sour as they're called and you have real heavy crude like what you would have in Venezuela for instance. That's a completely different kind of oil than what we produce in the United States. Ours is all shale oil, not all, but mostly shale oil. And the refining process is completely different, and the extraction is different. Yeah, there's kind of a lot to it and understanding that the process of what we have here,

because it's mostly shale oil means it's trapped in sedimentary rock. It's not like free flowing like you would have in the deserts of Middle East and other places. So that requires fracking. So you have the initial process where they would set it up to set up a well where you would drill for the well, in case it and the processes that go through that. But that's the cheap and easy part. Sure. They might do that for, you know, basic site preparation.

But then in order to actually get the oil out, well, now you have to start fracking. And that's the expensive part. It acquires a lot of labor. You have regulatory issues with the EPA and getting lease contracts and all these various things that they need to do in order to get, you know, get it flowing. Plus, basically they have, you know, their break-even analysis that's going to vary from place to place. But if it doesn't get above a certain price per barrel of oil, they'll actually lose money

to get it out of the ground. Wow. Okay. So let's let's ask forward then to the Iran conflict. What are you seeing now? Like, have the phones been ringing off the hooks? have we been starting to drill and actually frack and pump the oil out? What do you see unfolding with this entire thing?

Well, what I've been seeing with our suppliers, and this is just really in the last, well, since it all kicked off and I ran in the stuff that's going on there is in the last two, three weeks, now we're getting some phone calls and they're ordering site preparation things to put on their shelves. they're not actually really doing anything with it. They're, you know, because inventory that's sitting on the shelf, that's, that's money to them. That, you know, they're spending money and they're not doing anything with it. So they let their stock deplete down to bare bones. Well, now they're starting to put stuff on the shelves in anticipation of starting to get, you know, fracking again and getting the oil out. but they really haven't hit the switch on that yet. And I think a lot of it is just there's so much uncertainty going on with what's going on over there,

whatever might be going on with Venezuela and everything that they did, you know, with supposedly bringing over millions of gallons of that oil. But it's not really doing much here. what I do know is the markets and how they go from what has been explained to me. Because it's a whole different process within the United States, we have basically all light, sweet crude oil, which means it's easy. or I should say it's desirable on the market to sell because it would take a lot of refining and a lot of processes to get it to that point for the end user, other countries that would want to use it. That's really good for, basically for gasoline.

Then you have other types of oil, the heavy crude and whatever, that requires a lot more refining. and we have the infrastructure in the United States to do the refining mainly of heavy oil but not the sweet stuff. Yeah, like the stuff that comes from Venezuela. Sure. So as far as what's going on over there, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for why all of a sudden gas prices would go up particularly here. They're completely different markets. And we don't use really any of that oil. I mean, all of last year, I believe it was about 8% roughly of all the imports that we got from, you know, of lighter crude oils from the Middle East and otherwise.

It was almost entirely from Saudi Arabia, as would be expected. And Iraq, obviously nothing from Iran because of sanctions and everything else. and we're set up here to actually refine the heavy oils. It's a kind of a win-win in the U.S. market to do it that way. We have the oil that we would want here, just as trapped in the shale, that we sell to everybody else at the premium, and then we have the ability here to refine the heavy, nasty shit that the other countries don't have the ability to do,

or can't do or whatever. So we import that in here, we refine it, and then use what we're gonna use and sell it back to them. So interesting. So what you said there about it doesn't really make sense that our prices are going up. I mean, it seems like the oil companies,

you know, they manipulate the market when they can and it's much easier for them to explode the price than it is to ever bring it down. But how much of this, like, why do you know, do you think, why do you think they're raising the prices so drastically if there isn't necessarily a need to? Like, what do you think their mindset? Like, have you had any insight with that? No, I would say you're right. It's probably basically just, it's market manipulation. It's just the ability that they can do it. And they can raise the prices up really fast. And then

it drops off really slow over a long period of time. It's just basically, I don't know, because they can. Yeah. Okay. Do you anticipate, like, the drill baby drill, the fact that we haven't, like, necessarily started to drill more, do you think the gas and oil companies here in the States are actually that concerned about how this conflict is going to resolve itself? Well, I guess it depends on the company.

I've heard a couple different reactions to it, and depending on the mindset that they have, almost the companies that I do work with, they're all kind of Texas good old boys, so to speak. And the one company, they're very pragmatic, and they're one to see, you know, what's going on. and I don't know. It's how to describe them. They're kind of bookworm types and, you know, looking at these things, whereas the other guy seems like he's just, you know, like a war mongering neocon type.

I mean, he literally on the phone said, it's not drill baby drill, it's bomb baby bomb. And I was like, really? That is interesting. Because he thinks that's going to help. move the market, you know, it's pretty short-sighted. That's, that's wild. Anything else that you want to mention or think that would be worthwhile for the audience

to pay attention to? Any like closing thoughts? Well, as far as on the markets, which, again, because I'm an engineer and I make the parts, I don't know as much about the economy side of things. I do understand how the oil is extracted, you know, the whole, process and why it is maybe that we're not drilling yet because of the cost of all those things. I do find it, I found it interesting that in 20, late 2025, that some of the things that some of the

things that were going on to me almost seemed like kind of signal in a, you know, in a sovereign alliance kind of way. Can you consider? Because at the time, we had basically an oil glut, we had worldwide, a huge amount of oil buildup in certain particular areas that I found interesting. Like, for instance, it was back in 2016 that, that, Russia became part of OPEC plus. And now OPEC historically had always been, you know, it's a conglomeration of a lot of different Middle Eastern countries, you know, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, what have you.

Russia became part of that. And all of a sudden now they're producing just as many roughly 10 million barrels a day as Saudi Arabia was. but to me what was interesting was not only that but that both China as well as Russia and Saudi Arabia, those three in particular all started stockpiling oil like crazy. What year was this? 2025. Late 2025. Wow. Okay. Yep.

And it went that way throughout the year. and it was interesting that in the beginning of the year, what China did, Xi's China, they passed a new law about a new energy law in which the oil companies were now mandated to increase oil stocks at their own facilities rather than with, like within a national SBR, a national strategic petroleum reserve, so that effectively positions the private firms as long-term strategic, quote-unquote, partners for the government. At the same time, you know, Saudi Arabia was doing it and Russia was doing it to the tune where any one of those, like for instance, the Saudis had built up enough where a

Ramco alone now has more reserves in the billions of barrels, like something like 70% of all of the OPEC plus country reserves combined. Wow. Now, all of that happened just prior to all the Trump tariffs, like, you know, executive order 14195 on the Chinese goods. And then later on in April, you had Liberation Day.

You know, those changes by G's government, they could have been a hedge against what could have been significant impacts on the Chinese petrochemical plants, specifically the plastics and cheap goods that they produce because they produce something like a third of all of those type of products in the world. Or it could have just been, you know, a planned strategic shift for them and their GDP output. And the fact that those ones in particular did it all, to me almost seems like they knew ahead of time that there was going to be some kind of shift in the flow over the control, you know, whether it's the energy markets or perhaps they were part of it. I don't know. That's fascinating. I mean, that's what it would indicate to me as well, is they had some sort of foreknowledge that that something like this was going to go down. So are we being misled about how much this is actually impacting China in some of these countries? Well, it would impact a lot, at least what goes through the Strait of Hormuz area, from what I understand, to India, China to a degree, Japan, and otherwise, but then they had that oil buildup ahead of time.

and a lot of that included what they call water swell, which is just a terminology that means they don't even have room to put it in their stockpiles on land. They're putting it on tanker ships and sending it out to sea to the point of having hundreds of millions of barrels in ships. They're floating out in the water waiting to onshore and pump the oil off. No way. Are those the tankers that we're being told about? that are in the middle of like the the straight there now or these you're saying like off the coast of china i'm just uh i'm saying that they're out to sea in general i can't i can't say where where they

happen to be that i don't know interesting uh yeah that part's that part's interesting i also found it uh interesting that uh one of the companies that we do so supply parts for. This company is called Liberty Energy was started in 2010. They have about 20% of all the onshore wells in the United States. So they're, you know, it's pretty large customer considering. I routinely work with these guys. The founder and the CEO, I've seen them at an oil expo. And the last one he had attended. It was near the back in, it's called the Backin Basin. It's in North Dakota.

Yeah, the Bakken. That was just prior to Trump tapping on the shoulder. This is Chris Wright and he made him Secretary of Energy. No way. I'm seeing that here. He was the 17th

United States Secretary of Energy. That's right. Yep. Wow. So he's an oil and gas guy in the business, but he's also heavily involved in nuclear energy startups. Like he got involved with one. I think it's called Oclo Inc.

and some other things. But that guy's a character. It also didn't escape me that he was also part of the board of directors for the Federal Reserve Bank for about four years. Chris Wright? Yes. I did not know that. Yeah.

So he's got some different interesting ties. with that guy. I actually learned this morning. I thought it was funny. He had kind of a Galen Windsor moment, if you know who that is. But some of these environmental terrorists, you know, they were saying that,

oh, the fracking fluids are dangerous and fracking in general is dangerous, whatever. So in 2019, at one of the shows, he actually took some of the fracking fluid and he drank it on stage just to prove. prove it wasn't hazardous. Oh, no way. Yeah.

He's still with us today. Yep. That's crazy. That is fascinating. I did not realize his connection. And so have you actually spoken with him in your role? No, I saw him. I did not meet him or speak to him.

Gotcha. It was just, and then back then, that was, you know, before he got tapped by Trump, you know, he was just, oh, that's the CEO of the company that I, that I make parts for. Oh, that's cool. you know yeah that's fascinating anyway um paula i i appreciate you coming on and uh at any point if you ever have uh something that you think is worthwhile discussing related to the oil and gas industry and stuff you know about you feel free to reach out and i'd be happy to get you back on get a get a voice for this man yeah sure um yeah like i said this is all stuff you know kind of out of my

element talking about the actual economics of it it's more on the engineering and the production and how that whole system works that I actually do know a lot about. Yeah, well, I mean, you certainly know more than I do. I'm just, you know, I read a story, talk about what I think is happening, and half the time I don't even know if I'm right about it. So it's good to have somebody with the background in the industry. Yeah, I've been doing it 20 years, so I've been learning a good bit about it. That's awesome.

Well, thank you, Polly, and looking forward to chat with you again, and looking forward to seeing you on John Drake's podcast here in the coming month or so. Chris Wright. All right, sure. And the shot is asking who, who's that Chris guy's last name? It's Chris Wright. He's the Secretary of Energy. Yeah, thanks again, Polly.

We'll catch you later. All right. Awesome. He is a wealth of knowledge. And I got to admit, I live in North Dakota. We had the oil boom back in the day. I'm pretty sure it was somebody from the oil industry, or he was working in the oil fields up in the Bakken,

who bought my parents' house at one point, like back in two, thousand gosh i don't remember when that was but all that said like i i don't know many people that are actually in the industry which is interesting so it's good to have somebody on who who does and um but anyway we're gonna we're gonna keep plugging away here because there's a few more things i want to get to before we we end the show let me see if i can figure out what they were Let's see. Actually, you know what, real quick, I'm going to get one more sponsor in. Let's do this real quick. Talk a little bit about Rumble wallet because I did see the show started with a donation from JBA 512, who tipped $10 in Bitcoin.

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their fight for free speech, some pretty awesome technology that they're using. So thank you Rumble. Thank you you, you guys who continue to support us. And thank you Rumble Studio for that ad. This story is an interesting one, I would say. Devin Nunes, he is the chair of the intelligence board. Robert O'Brien is also on this board. He says that they will be probing alleged political bias in China election intel.

The Svilling Board overseeing U.S. intelligence agencies will investigate whether political bias prevented analysts from sharing evidence with Congress and President Trump regarding alleged Chinese election interference, according to Chairman Devin Nunez. This was the story that came out last week. That was pretty big. What I find, I don't want to say silly. I don't know if silly is the right word. but maybe there's not a better word for it. It's the thing that this already didn't happen. I mean, it was an old story.

We knew about that. We knew about the intelligence community being weaponized against Trump and not sharing intel. These are all reruns, three or four-year-old reruns. And to think now they're just going to start looking into whether or not it was okay of them to share intelligence or not share intelligence. That's silly. Maybe silly is the best word.

But I still think there's a bigger story coming here. They're laying the groundwork for something. We need arrests, not probes, says Hammer Guy. I would agree with that. I would definitely agree with that. Miss Wally, my dad told me when he was 18, he used to get paid on Friday, and was able to fill up his tank, buy a carton of cigarettes, and a six pack of beer all for less than $10.

That is nuts. I bet that's back when you get one income, one person in the family having an income and have a house and a car and everything you needed. But boy, have things changed. Silas underscore in the chat says, OnlyFan CEO is dead. I could see that.

I heard his cancer. I mean, I do not care that he has died. While I do not wish it will upon anybody most time, I do not, I'm not going to lose any sleep over that one. Yes, Frederick Leather's Badlands Boost, we also get everything, except we keep out a little processing fee. I don't remember what is. It's like 3% or 2.5% or something, but the rest gets paid out. There was a major crash this morning in LaGuardia Airport.

You can probably see a picture here. Sounds like the plane crashed with a fire truck. It would be scary as hell. it must have been landing right I said I don't know if I read to see whether they're landing or taken off but either way that's pretty sad I think the pilots died I don't know

if I've heard of anybody else passing away but very unfortunate but speaking of airports and whatnot Trump did finally send in some ice agents to to take over the airports

not take over but run TSA we had this post I am a big proponent of ice wearing masks as they search for and are forced to deal with, hardened criminals, many of whom were let into our country by Sleepy Joe Biden, his wonderful border czar Kamala. She never even went to the border, though they're absolutely insane open border policy. I would greatly appreciate, however, no masks when helping our country out of the Democrat-caused mess at the airports, etc.

I think for your attention to this matter. There might be one more post where he will do this one. I don't think we should make any deal with the crazy country destroying radical left Democrats unless and until they vote with Republicans to pass the Save America Act. It is far more important than anything else we are doing in the Senate. And that includes giving these same terrible people, the Dems, who are to blame for this mess, a $5 billion cut in ICE funding, which by the way, we went over on Saturday. There was a story that came out. I might even have a link to it. give me a second yeah i think this is this one so we're going to compare and contrast this

true social posts with this story from back in february so i'll finish reading this real quick first um the dems who are to blame for this mess a five billion dollar cut in ice funding a deal which even when disguised is something else is unacceptable to me and the american people unless it includes their approval of voter ID with picture. Citizenship to vote, no mail in voting, with exceptions, all paper ballots, no men and women's sports and no transgender mutilization of our precious children. Put it all together and also let Leader Thune clearly identify those few Republicans that are voting against America. They will never be elected again.

In other words, lump everything together as one and vote. Kill the filibuster and stay in D.C. for Easter. If necessary, make America great again. It's kind of funny, though, it's like we need the Save America Act to fix our election system. But if we don't get it, the people who voted against it will never be elected again in the voting system. They voted against fixing. That is silly. But in here, he talks about this $5 billion cut in ICE funding.

That wouldn't actually even, like, do anything because the one big beautiful bill, even though it was very big, not. always beautiful it essentially made ice shutdown proof and there's a story out here i'll post in the chat i'm not going to read through it but we talked a little bit about it on saturday there you guys go you can check that out on your own time it's in the chat and i'll put it over on youtube too for you guys um tomcat oh one new jersey and youtube says cigarettes were 45 cents a pack in 1978 and the states realized they can tax them to balance their budgets but we don't have balanced budget. So yeah, that's government just always ruins everything. Babbage three in the YouTube chat says, so the ice at TSA take off the masks for optics. Next thing will be people online

doxing them. 100%. I think that's all the true social posts I wanted to discuss. He had a whole bunch of like economic ones that he shared. He shared this. USA now produces more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Okay, why our gas price is going up so much? USA now produces more natural gas than Russia, Iran and China combined. The wire price is going up. The USA is a global leader in oil production. Wire price is going up. It's just kind of funny.

Maybe that's what he's trying to expose. But yeah, it looks like ICE is at 14 airports right now with more to come. I think it's good. It's needed. The optics of the TSA and the lines at the airports, I do think that was potentially damaging. Trump. I mean, we can put blame on whatever party you want. Oh, it's just it's hurting the Democrats. None of that matters in in a fraudulent election system. So fix the actual problem.

And I think this is what that's going to do, which I like. What else? I think there's a couple more stories that I wanted to just quickly mention. And then, um, get you guys out of here over to Ychromes. I'm not finding them and market surge. Yeah, maybe not. I think that's all I got. so unless anything you guys want to want to talk about but others dick says john the current oil price reflects the fear

uncertainty risk premium it will compress once peace is credible yeah and that's the thing i mean we we have this true social post from trump saying you know we're making peace we have israel still continuing to bomb we don't know who necessarily they're actually talking to we don't know how much of any of that is true we know trump is constantly hitting all sides of the

of the narrative of every story. So I have no idea. No idea if it's an actual piece. If we're close. If we're going to get ground troops, don't know. I mean, if you were going to send any ground troops, would you say like,

hey, we're going to stop bombing and we're negotiating peace? Then like sneak him in there real quick. Grab all the uranium and get out of there. Go dog go says wait lines for TSA's three plus hours at Houston airport. That's nuts. That would not, that would make it. the trip not worth it for me whatever it is clear count 367 john is there any chance there may be a

time change for daily herald or yichrome so they don't overlap yeah um it's unfortunate but when when i started the daily herald they were already doing yichroms and i wanted to find a time that i could do the same time every day that fit my schedule whether i have my kids or not because on weeks i have my kids like it's it's very difficult for me to do anything after basically I have to be done by like 2.30 my time in order to be sure to pick them up from school and all those things.

So my cough is 2.30, my time. And yeah, I just, it was the only time that worked for me long term. And I'm not going to make them change their time. I mean, they've had it longer. And it's only one day a week. So it's all good.

Solomon sure is helping the hope on War Room again today. I don't know if I saw him. Let me see if I can find a clip. Solomon War Room. Over processing. Oh, what's the day to day? Here is him from the day. Again, this is kind of the,

it looks like a repeat story, but. In Great Britain, when they learned China was hacked, or when China had hacked their voters. Wait, this is, I think this is from the other day. Registration database. The intelligence community there put their country first. They made it public. They corrected it.

There were great recrimination. There was a national crisis. In this country, leftist in the intelligence community, buried that notion. We know that because the ombudsman for the intelligence community said he found the evidence, he found the receipts, he found the goods that said that the intelligence community hated Donald Trump. They called them a vulgarian, and they were intent on not letting him the Congress or the American public know that China had hacked our databases, our voter registration data, specifically because they didn't want to help his China policy. They disagreed with it.

They had a leftist view on China, and they allowed that political view. Yeah, this clip is from last week during the intelligence hearings, so I don't want to re-gurgitate that too much. But he's right. I mean, he's saying that we have all this intelligence. Why aren't we sharing it with Congress at these hearings? And I would argue, because Congress is in on it. Why would you share it with those people? They're part of the problem.

Anything else? I don't let me see if there's anything else that's breaking news since. I went live. Otherwise, I'm going to get you guys out of here. I'm not seeing anything. Oh, yeah. What was interesting is the Supreme Court, they were hearing oral arguments about mail-in voting. And here, take a listen to this. This is Justice Alito. I haven't listened to this yet, but people are talking about on social media. Again, they're hearing a challenge on receiving mail-in ballots after election day. We have lots of phrases that involve two words, the last of which, the second of which is day. Labor Day, Memorial Day, George Washington's birthday, Independence Day, birthday, birthday,

and election day. And they're all particular days. So if we start with that, if I have nothing more to look at than the phrase election day, I think this is the day in which everything is going to take place or almost everything. And then we have three points in time, 1844, 1872, 1914. We can ask, what would people have thought on those days is meant by this phrase election day? Which of those should we choose?

Which of those dates should we choose? Well, I think you could choose any of the three. I mean, honestly, I think the single best one, if you're just going to choose one, is 1872. And the reason I say that is because 1914 is the latest in time, but that's the one that Congress gave the least thought to. Interesting stuff. We'll see what they do. I'm, I would anticipate, and I've been wrong about the Supreme Court in their decisions in the past,

but I would anticipate this would be a no-brainer, like pretty easy to not allow the reception of mail-on ballots after election day. Seems like a no-brainer. But who knows, we shall see. what happens a couple rumble rants here from jb a 512 who tipped 10 dollars in bitcoin thank you so much the final demand for five dollars says is joe kent part of a white hat sciop that exposes israel and grants trump 100 percent optical and political narrative shielding against the mainstream media and the christian we will die to defend biblical israel base it's definitely one way to

look at it's definitely a possibility i have no idea if that's what he is we may never know if that's what he truly was um i did reach out in twitter dm asking to interview Joe Kent. And so if I ever get him on, I'll ask him that. Are you just part of a white hat side to expose Israel? We'll see. But I mean, that's whether or not that is what he is, he could definitely be playing that role unwittingly

and doing that unintentionally. And then final demand, as again, says, why does gas go up 60 cents in two days when the price of a quart of oil is the same as it was three months ago? Seriously, somebody needs to explain how that. that is legal. Why don't people scream about that? I don't know.

Maybe we're too busy screaming about everything else. But there's lots of things to scream about. That's one of them. We should ask our government to do something about it. Anyway. So I got for you guys, I'm going to send you over to Ychromes here after I play our soft disclosure ad. Make sure you guys tune in tonight on basis conspiracies.

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